Qobuz has started displaying a label on its app that marks AI-generated tracks.
The label appears directly above the track list on tagged releases, and next to “This release contains AI-generated tracks” is a More Info link that provides listeners with more details on how Qobuz identifies such tracks.
The industry’s major streaming platforms are grappling with an increasing number of AI-generated tracks entering their catalogs, some of which artificially inflate streaming numbers and divert royalties from human artists.
Qobuz’s editorial approach is driven by interest in music, with curated playlists and featured selections sourced from human curators rather than automated recommendation engines. With this difference, the French platform has long distinguished itself from its algorithm-driven rivals.
Editorial curation already excludes AI-generated material from selections and playlists, so the new label mainly covers tracks that surface via search or direct upload.
Georges Fornay, Deputy CEO of Qobuz, said: “Today, the challenge is not just to detect AI-generated music, but to make sure that listeners can clearly recognize it. At Qobuz, this transparency – which is our hallmark – comes with a fundamental belief: music discovery should still be driven by human decisions. Everyone should know what they’re doing and be able to make decisions.”
Qobuz reports that only 0.38% of all streams come from tracks classified as AI-generated, a figure the platform attributes to its human-led approach to music discovery, rather than algorithms.
Of the AI-identified tracks being streamed, Qobuz’s anti-fraud systems currently classify 60% of these streams as fraudulent and completely exclude them from paying royalties to rights holders.
Qobuz became the first platform to have its fee per stream independently audited at $0.01873, currently the highest in the industry, so maintaining this approach and identifying AI tracks helps put people at the center of music creation and benefit from it.
Cleaning up more than a third of AI-generated albums without listening activity has already removed roughly four million tracks from Qobuz’s search engine, a scale that shows how much unlistened AI content has accumulated on the platform.
Qobuz designed and built the new tagging system in-house, and the company is framing it as a further step in its AI charter published in February 2026, with further revisions expected as regulation of AI-generated content in the streaming industry continues to evolve.
